use for all the context of writing. For example of this error is “
My
family take a rest on the house
.
” It should be “My family took a rest
in
the house.
e. Sentence pattern
Furthermore, the students made errors in sentence pattern. The students sometimes missed a word in their sentence such as a subject,
a verb, etc. For instance in this error is “I _ happy together with my friends.” The student did not put an auxiliary verb “be” before an
adjective.
It should be “I was happy together with my friends.” The
students did such errors because the students translated directly from Indonesia language into English. Therefore, they forgot to use the
correct pattern of a sentence that consist of subject, predicate or verb, and object. Therefore, their writing seems ambiguous.
f. Pronoun
Mother tongue influences the most students when they write recount text. They did not use the proper pronoun. The example of this
case is “Me and my family went to Bandung.” It should be “My family and I
went to Bandung.” The pronoun “Me” should be used for the objective pronoun. The student who made that sentence should be
“I” for the subjective pronoun. The reason why they made this error is that they could not
differentiate between the nominative, subjective, and objective pronoun. This case could happen because in Indonesian language,
there is no pattern of using the personal pronoun.
g. Spelling
Spelling is how to write a word correctly. Most students misspelled certain words, especially for the English words that
changed into Indonesian language and made some incorrectly
separated words. The students could not spell and write some word correctly because they were still interfered by Indonesian language,
their mother tongue. The spelling in Indonesian language imposed students to write spelling in English. Spelling error could also happen
by lack of knowledge of students and influence of their native language. For example is
“I went to holiday whit my family.” It should be “I went for a holiday with my family.”
h. Punctuation
Punctuation is the system of inserting various marks in written test in order to aid interpretation. Some students made errors in
punctuation. For example is “
I went there on school holiday
”
They did not use punctuation in
the end of the sentence. It should be “I went
there on school holiday.
” Errors in punctuation indicated that the students were carelessness when writing. They did not realize that
written English is different from spoken language. Gesture, tones, and stressing can make the meaning clear in spoken language but only
punctuation can make the meaning clear in written English.
3. The Interpretation Data
